Wow, this was so timely! I'm a beginner enrolled in the finger style course and was beginning to have leanings towards the 2 Finger Thumb Lead style after listening to a wide range of tunes and methods. Looking so forward to taking this course!

By far one of the best banjo instructors. You are making it too simple, man! Keep up the good work.

@fingerstylebanjolessons

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Mick!

Special thanks for this fantastic content you are putting out there, I have being trying to get to grips with Clawhammer for a couple of months & found your lessons invaluable in how I learn through practice. I tried picking style beforehand without much success but this lesson has encouraged me to give it another go! Please keep up the good work.

@fingerstylebanjolessons

4 жыл бұрын

Really appreciate that, Andrew. Happy to be both a source of encouragement and distraction right now!

I like your technique. After two years of frustration with my banjo, now with the course I am starting to tidy my head and make music. Thanks for your videos!

@fingerstylebanjolessons

4 жыл бұрын

Awesome! And my pleasure.

Great video. I don’t have a banjo yet but when I do I will definitely give this a go. Just ordered your book as well.

Thanks dude

Thank you

Thank you! I have been working thru your clawhammer couse and kinda stalled at drop thumb. I thought this style might teach my thumb to MOVE! This is fun!

@fingerstylebanjolessons

4 жыл бұрын

That’s an excellent point!

i have been trying to play for about a year , both 3 finger and clawhammer. Enjoy clawhammer more cause it comes easier, but this 2 finger style I think will help me quite a bit. I also appreciate the tip about what finger to use when fretting, that makes a lot of sense.

@fingerstylebanjolessons

4 жыл бұрын

That's great, Michael. As I say in the video, learning 2 finger TL first will end up making 3 finger a whole lot easier.

Thanks Josh, just what we needed.

@fingerstylebanjolessons

4 жыл бұрын

My pleasure, Steve.

Ive been messing with this for a while, just noodling around with it . Love this since were now on week 5 of sheltering in place and most home projects are done. I can devote my time to more important things....BANJO!!!!!

@fingerstylebanjolessons

4 жыл бұрын

#priorities

I move my first steps on banjo(clawhammer) following your lessons. Maybe is time for 2fingers style...thank you Josh

@fingerstylebanjolessons

4 жыл бұрын

Do it! :)

Just started your lessons first class teaching

New to banjo and this has been such a helpful resource! Is there a full video of Pretty Polly? I watched videos 1-7 and never heard the song the whole way through. I'm moving on to 7 steps of clawhammer next and can't wait!

@williamrose6206

3 жыл бұрын

I found this on an in-video link of lesson 1. And he is right... the song *is* awesome! kzread.info/dash/bejne/la2tu8aziLepkZc.html

Hi Josh. Great video and I'm looking forward to the rest of the course. I play clawhammer by ear, and I find the timing much easier as there's always something going on and I can fill in any chord with something and never lose timing. It's a first impression, but is Two Finger a little bit trickier in terms of timing? When I think back to learning music years ago, the rest (on the stave) was always my downfall.

Thanks for these videos Josh, I only have one problem this video always stops when using my iPhone. Do you have any answers or fixes for this problem? Thanks

Just what I needed while self-quarantining! Thank you for giving us a distraction.

@fingerstylebanjolessons

4 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear that - that was certainly the intent!

@tastas3880

4 жыл бұрын

Same

@devcore385

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, same thing for me

Yeah you can also mess up the finger tendons if a person tries to anchor both fingers with a hand not suited to it. I only anchor my pinky. Nice video.

I am having a 5 string open back banjo made, what frets should I put RR Spikes on, thank you

Okay, I found a broken banjo at a garage sale, got it fixed, and now I'm ready to be more than just an old junk keeper in the attic.

If I sign up for your banjo course, does the $21 per month give me access to BOTH the fingerstyle and clawhammer materials, or are they seperate subscriptions?

i am a lefty do you think i should start to learn with a right handed banjo, i am a total beginner

I went to the site of 2 finger banjo course book and could not figure out how to buy it. The book is by you correct?

Hi Josh thank you for another great video! may I ask, if your considerations about anchoring fingers do also apply to bluegrass-style? My pinky finger is also quite a bit shorter (~1inch) than my ringfinger and I find it very unconvenient to anchor both. I always lift one or the other and I regularly damp the 1st string with the side of the pinky.. Thanks. Stay healthy.

@fingerstylebanjolessons

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, indeed. I anchor my pinky only for all fingerpicking.

@VieilHomme70

4 жыл бұрын

@@fingerstylebanjolessons Thank you

This is the first video I’m watching on this 2 finger style. Is the tuning always the same; is that a standard for two finger? I might be getting ahead of myself but is there a chord chart for this tuning?

@Womble1252

3 жыл бұрын

Try www.looknohands.com/chordhouse/guitar/index_rb.html and adjust to the G sus 4 tuning used here. Just ignore the 6th string (low E on.guitar). Any chord or scale can easily be shown on the whole fretboard..

Anyone else now have their banjo in modal tuning for the foreseeable future?

@calumsmith9191

4 жыл бұрын

@@garyswift135 Yes, it can sound wistful or eerie, depending on what you do with it

Great beginning. I have some limited clawhammer experience. The video is fine on my desktop mac, but degrades and stops when I try it on my iPad , either the app, or a browser. I would prefer to use the iPad, but if it’s not suitable, I understand.

@fingerstylebanjolessons

4 жыл бұрын

Should work fine from any device - youTube is typically very fast. But usage is up right now since so many people are at home, so it may be slower than usual at certain times of day.

@maurylandsman7940

4 жыл бұрын

@@fingerstylebanjolessons Works fine on my older laptop. Must be my iPad. I'll survive.😇

Do you have an opinion about wearing picks when playing 2 finger thumb lead? I don’t know if anyone does that

@fingerstylebanjolessons

Жыл бұрын

Totally up to you really. If you think you’ll want to play in a bluegrass jam sometime, you’ll want to at least learn to play with them on. Otherwise go with what sounds best to you.

What is your opinion of 2 finger thumb lead where index finger handles first and second string? I have seen that done too. Any pluses or minuses?

@fingerstylebanjolessons

4 жыл бұрын

There’s a 2 finger style known as index lead, where you’re playing melody notes with the index - so the inverse of 2 finger. While you can certainly make great music with this approach, I recommend moving to 3 finger style after thumb lead (if you want to add more) - this is how the course is set up. The reason being 3 finger allows you to get all the same sounds that you can get with 2 finger index lead, but without the constraints of that style. In other words, if you move on to learning 3 finger, you’ll have the ability to play anything that would be played on 2 finger index lead, plus a whole lot more.

@bruceroberts3082

4 жыл бұрын

@@fingerstylebanjolessons Thank you

How are you playing that intro song

@fingerstylebanjolessons

4 жыл бұрын

It’s in 2 finger thumb lead.

I have been trying to sign up to your web page but there seems to be a problem accepting my email address ?? I,m in Australia but i love bluegrass music, please let me in.

@graememitchell2942

4 жыл бұрын

I am able to access all of Josh's content in Australia using my Gmail account which, of course, does not have 'au' at the end. Try that Dess.

What do we do when the melody is on the 5th string?

@ClawhammerBanjo

4 ай бұрын

You can get that note on other strings. For example, in standard G (gDGBD) tuning, the 5th fret of the 1st string, the 8th fret of the 2nd string and the 12th fret of the 3rd string are all the same not as the 5th string.

@tomnelson3362

4 ай бұрын

Thanks @@ClawhammerBanjo

👍🇸🇪

i dont want to pick 2 finger banjo. i want to pick 3 finger scruggs style.

@fingerstylebanjolessons

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome. Learning 2 finger thumb lead is the best way to build the foundation for Scruggs style (though you might decide 2 finger is equally great :) ).

@jessejames1040

2 жыл бұрын

@@fingerstylebanjolessons Your course appeals to me, but I don't want to learn anything but 3 finger scruggs style. Do you have a course that is dedicated to this. I dont want to have to work around clawhammer, old style, 2 finger, etc. i want to stay with scruggs style 3 finger only. All this other just muddles up the water for me. Im speaking for myself only, not a criticism of the course in general.

@joshturknettmd2981

2 жыл бұрын

jesse james You of course can go about it however you’d like, but the fastest route to learning scruggs is to start with 2 finger. There are no techniques that you learn for 2 finger that you don’t learn for scruggs, so the difference is just semantics. You may just be overthinking it.

I could not have fucked that up worse! My ears are terrible Great teaching style though, super unique, ill be sticky with it to the end

@cricketspam8012

Жыл бұрын

I heard the first 6 notes but I failed at the second 6.

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